This sucks dude

[jamz_7]

Im going to be a pure wind druid i guess, but I dont get what you are supposed to do before you get to level 24. And what the hell is the point of twister???? 6-8 damage...so how am i supposed to fight people people for right now? what ive ben doing this whole game so far is having my act 1 merc kill almost everything while i keep everything cold with arctic blast. (at baal the merc was pointless so i died about 35 times).

am i supposed to fight with a weapon until i get tornado? by the way does that move do physical damage?


mucho gracias a ustedes

[Cyddry]

leech your way upto 24... Dont think there are much other choices, and get your merc as good as possible :)

[proudfoot]

You can do it if you have a few minions, like a good merc and a couple Spirit Wolves. But if you're going to be pure wind, I guess no summons. Hmm. Get a bow and use Twister and whatnot, and just hack away. It shouldn't be too too hard.

[jamz_7]

You can do it if you have a few minions, like a good merc and a couple Spirit Wolves. But if you're going to be pure wind, I guess no summons. Hmm. Get a bow and use Twister and whatnot, and just hack away. It shouldn't be too too hard.


alright i hired a act 3 cold merc and hes doing pretty good, plus ive been throwing oil potions and such at them.

but im curious how much damage does twister do when fully leveled? and does anyone ever use it? and does tornado and twister do physical damage?

[~Kazama Fury~]

PvM, whats that? O_o

theres a wind druid guide on the very first page of this forum...
read it. theres a leveling guide.
http://forums.rpgforums.net/showthread.php?t=238126

de nada jamz_7

[Forcefeedback]

Twister doesn't do any noticeable damage, tornado does. If you are going untwinked you might be progressing slowly due to the fact that you don't have any good offensive skills yet. Just hang in there, a point into tornado and a few +skills and you can start your transition to spell casting. :)

[Uzziah]

I'm going to be a pure wind druid I guess, but I dont get what you are supposed to do before you get to level 24. And what the hell is the point of twister???? 6-8 damage...so how am i supposed to fight people people for right now? what ive ben doing this whole game so far is having my act 1 merc kill almost everything while i keep everything cold with arctic blast. (at baal the merc was pointless so i died about 35 times).

Am I supposed to fight with a weapon until I get tornado?
I would need to know what you mean by Pure wind druid. does that mean your only using the elemental tree? If it does I can give you some hints on how to blast your way through for awhile. If not you should look at the windy guide.

Also what are you doing facing Baal at that low of level if your rushed to that point then yeah your going to struggle. Get enchanted if your playing for that type of rush. You only really have small damaging skills until you get to clvl 24 and 30 the combo of tornado and hurricane are the damage dealers.

Twister and Tornado deal physical, Hurricane deals cold. Twister is typically used for the stunning effect and the wide hit range. It is also 3 twisters so the damage is = 3 * listed. Same goes with charged bolt, charged strike, teeth, and Fire storm. My suggestion for getting through until clvl 24 is to get a pelt with +skills in firestorm. Even a few slvls in firestorm are deadly to get through normal. With 20 points at clvl 47 my elemental druid dealt 900-1100 damage per second with firestorm.

[Arith-Matic]

Im going to be a pure wind druid i guess, but I dont get what you are supposed to do before you get to level 24. And what the hell is the point of twister???? 6-8 damage...so how am i supposed to fight people people for right now? what ive ben doing this whole game so far is having my act 1 merc kill almost everything while i keep everything cold with arctic blast. (at baal the merc was pointless so i died about 35 times).

am i supposed to fight with a weapon until i get tornado? by the way does that move do physical damage?


mucho gracias a ustedes

I got myself a decent bow (skystrike) which has good elemental damage - or a 3 socket hunter bow w/ three p.topzes will help too...though, why are you at baal at level 24? normally, you'll level MUCH faster on players 8. I use players 8 and i leave act 1 at lvl 16-18 and leave act 2 at lvl 20-22, act 3 lvl 24-25 and in act 4, i do some diablo runs till i'm level 30. It makes act 5 SOOO much easier.

[Rauth]

Fenris' guide was for the realms(lvling wise at least). You can't use the /players command on the realms.

[~Kazama Fury~]

i would usually join a dueling game if you really wanted to solo a 8 player game.

yes there are many normal dueling games.

or maybe a trade game? or even a baal game. whatever goes.

[inkanddagger]

arctic set and a point into pcreeper.



actually, for fun on single player at work I made a completely untwinked pcreeper/wind druid (single point into sage)

and I am so far on act4 hell.


10 points into creeper early will get you through the first 24 levels easy.

[theBlackKnight]

Khalims imbued flail, deaths gloves+ belt, 2 cathans, twitchthrow, a bsod with 2 9 max damage jewels in it, 40% faster run walk boots, and a bunch of STR / DEX larges with hopefully a second mod or two. After gears reqs are taken care of, as many elemental damage smalls.

[det]

I don't think you are really supposed to solo Baal before you are lv 37 to 40. At that point, you should have a Grizzly, Tornado at lv 10-16 (yes, it does Physical damage), decent Oak and a bit of Hurricane. (and he still is a pain...well...he is the final Boss, so he is supposed to be that)

Only point in Twister is that its a synergy (that gets maxed last..I am still working on THAT at lv 90)

I suppose it is a pain to get to lv 24 if you play solo, especially if you play all alone. All I can think of is a bow or melee weapon with RALs in it, if you are untwinked. I like max block, so I work on my dex from the start. This will also help you survive. I imagine that Duriel would be the worst enemy on your way :(

[[D]Rui[D]]

hate to say this but you have to actually go play the whole normal act instead of charging straight to act 5 before you get tornado. i learn mine the hard way after i clear normal baal at lvl23. *smack forehead*

if you play the whole act slowly you should be like lvl 27+ by the time you get to act 5. hack and slash is the only way you can get through the low lvls unless you have friends to help you through with baalruns. of course a full sigon set will help you alot along the way.

take your time in the low lvls, after you get to NM at 40+ lvls, its a breeze all the way to hell.

[foh pally]

Most ppl will probally disagree with this but when i made my wind druid i just put two pts into werewolf(first two skill pts) and went ahead and started on the oak sage afterwards untill lvl 15, as long as u got decent wep and all U don't really need to worry about getting to lvl 25 or what not to do baal runs

[det]

I think that is actually not a bad idea, if you have to play alone :thumbsup:

[let's have a look]

artic set all the way, 24 is a piece of cake. Also try to get a hat with +2 molten bolder or poison creeper. will be all you need

[skunkbelly]

My windy (currently in NM) used Molten Boulder to great effect in normal... +2 to the skill from a pelt, as suggested.

I'd also suggest that with /players 8, you can easily reach level 24 in Act 2, and level 30 before you go after Diablo. For a windy, having Tornado before you take on Dury is helpful... and having both a grizzly and a hurricane is very useful for Diablo.

EDIT: something else I did that was helpful... for $6,000 gold, I bought a blade in act 3 with dim vision charges. I'd blind the opposition, roll molten boulders at them, and let my dire wolf and merc clean up the remainders. Worked great.

[Uzziah]

I don't think you are really supposed to solo Baal before you are lv 37 to 40. At that point, you should have a Grizzly, Tornado at lv 10-16 (yes, it does Physical damage), decent Oak and a bit of Hurricane. (and he still is a pain...well...he is the final Boss, so he is supposed to be that)

Only point in Twister is that its a synergy (that gets maxed last..I am still working on THAT at lv 90)

I suppose it is a pain to get to lv 24 if you play solo, especially if you play all alone. All I can think of is a bow or melee weapon with RALs in it, if you are untwinked. I like max block, so I work on my dex from the start. This will also help you survive. I imagine that Duriel would be the worst enemy on your way :(

Actually I play only single player games, infact I find the lag that exist on Bnet to be a "drag". I have played around with windy druids a bit and found that putting points in hurricane first helps out alot more in the early game. So for my elemental druid I placed my first 20 points in firestorm, 1 in artic blast, 1 in the armor, 1 in twister, 7 in armor, 1 in tornado then I pumped hurricane to 20. Now I am working with twister i find it much easier to control and though the damage is smaller its a more effective spell to keep enemies in the hurricane radius due to its stunning ablility. Building my druid like this I was able to beat normal solo with /players 8 set and have made it to nightmare act 3 at /players 4 or greater. I took on the ancients of normal at players 8 and did not have to worry too much with them by then I was at clvl 40. Baal was a cake walk you place him in a corner and hurricane/firestorm him to death no problem.

Oh and at clvl 27 I took on Duriel /players 8 and it only took 3 trips to town to get more potions for my 12 slotted belt. He falls pretty fast with firestorm dealing ~200 damage per second per flame. By the by a lot of his attack is cold thus the armor absorbs most of it.

[Rauth]

If you try to kill things in hell or even late nm with twister you WILL die. If you try to use a unsynergized firestorm in hell or even late nm you WILL die. Good luck :)

[Uzziah]

If you try to kill things in hell or even late nm with twister you WILL die. If you try to use a unsynergized firestorm in hell or even late nm you WILL die. Good luck :)

Actually at clvl 54 I deal the following damage, good luck figuring out how I have that much damage with a unsynergized firestorm and the rest of the points in wind skills.

Firestorm 965-1085
Twister 105-111
Hurricane 510-555 duration = 28 seconds

I remember taking a mastery barb into Hell at clvl 64 with a total damage output of ~270-400, that was including all the elemental charms I could find. I think I will be just fine handling atleast through nightmare at /players 4 or better.

[Fremen°]

if anyone has an enchantress thats good, it would make my life easier as i'm leveling a base strength pure wind druid...and its a pain

/w *w.o.e on USEast scnl

[Rauth]

Like I said. Good luck :)


@fremen Strength charms are your friend.

[Fremen°]

well, im lvl 7...when i hit 15, my friend will tomb me to 20, then cow me to 24, then do ancients with me

then i leech experience off baal runs until i can use that enigma, ss, hoto...etc

getting to lvl 15 is tough with that club weapon :P

[det]

well, im lvl 7...when i hit 15, my friend will tomb me to 20, then cow me to 24, then do ancients with me

then i leech experience off baal runs until i can use that enigma, ss, hoto...etc

getting to lvl 15 is tough with that club weapon :P

Oh man..ain't that game challenging :bonk:

[/sarcasm]

[Baroni]

well, im lvl 7...when i hit 15, my friend will tomb me to 20, then cow me to 24, then do ancients with me

then i leech experience off baal runs until i can use that enigma, ss, hoto...etc

getting to lvl 15 is tough with that club weapon :P

You must be so proud of your accomplishments...

[Rauth]

Ease off people, hes not playing the game to kill monsters is he?

Hint- base str windy with enigma

Dueling is much harder than any pvm, simply because monsters are stupid. This won't change no matter how weak your character is.

[det]

Hint- base str windy with enigma



This just shows that I have no idea about PvP. Base strength and wearing a SS...that's gonna be a lot in charms and items....

Then again..How do you get to lv 73 to use the SS without killing monsters.

You know what I love? How Diablo2 invented whole new verbs:

"to tomb somebody..."
"to cow somebody.."

:lol:

[Rauth]

Then again..How do you get to lv 73 to use the SS without killing monsters.


You don't Have to leech. If you use str charms(low req) to equip your begining gear(sigs and whatnot) then you can kill everything fairly easily. Once you get lvl 29(lots of good low gear at that req) you are good to go. Once you get enigma and cta, you can lead baal runs with ease.


As for base str with ss, you have to -req the ss and use enigma, and good anni and other str from rings/amy/whatever. I personally like 40 base, just so I have some flexibilty.

My d2 buddies always want "cowing" :(